What Happened with Items

As a casual player I don't enjoy learning complicated league mechanics and don't participate in new leagues. I don't really even interact with the various past league mechanics other than randomly encountering them in the game and don't care to spend the time to understand how they work.

You've turned the economy upside down with the divine/exalted changes.

You've ticked off the segment of players who enjoy league content and enjoy pushing endgame content as far as they can for better rewards.

In a game so heavily based on crafting and economy, why do you inherently undermine the economy continually?

Why is it still not possible to craft the items you want when you have hundreds of pieces of currency but you have to continually re-roll and will probably never get the roll you want?

The whole point of the crafting system is to rely less on RNG drops.

Manifesto after manifesto about fixing problems that aren't there while ignoring the most important directions forward for the game.

In-game auction house. More realistic possibility to craft the items you want given my stash is filled with hundreds of the materials required, but it'll take 10s of thousands of rolls to get the roll desired.

Lake of Kalandra, Sentinel, Incursion, Delirium, Breach, Harvest, yada yada yada.

Oh, and if you could stop making us convert maps every expansion that'd be great too. As a casual player you reset our entire atlas progress recently. Since that was done I haven't run a single map because all of my progress was gone.

For casual players who didn't login and transfer their exalts into divines before 3.19 was released, when they login and discover their wealth was deleted since the last time they logged in, they'll have a similar reaction and most will not play the game anymore.

Why not focus on quality of life and core improvements to the game instead of constantly pulling levers and twisting dials to change the core game mechanics?

WTB: Divine card on a map which is actually on the altas, since you changed the vender recipe and Divines only drop from a loot goblin in every 2000 maps

I've forgotten what the game is positioned for? Can you tell me?

Can you just revert to 3.10 please?

Hard pass

Something happened to items? Didn't notice...

Which game are we talking about? Can't find it in my library anymore

We're getting about 38-33k people logged in from a peak of 185k. This is only the first week.

Steam numbers keep getting worse. Even after the patches and changes.

Looks like this season was a failure. Even if there's a fall back to the old loot system, the game lost too much momentum. If you're going to make a viable change that will bring back players, it should be done soon. But now there's too many logged out to care.

Less players online, less items to trade. Less items to trade, less interest in playing. It's a loop that gets worse especially since the changes this league made it harder to craft, and trading and crafting is the soul of this game. You guys seriously missed the point.

God, its awfully [Removed By Support] system right now - been playing whole day - finally got my solaris touched rare - it suddenly jumped out of strongbox... and almost immediatly DIED.It was dead under 2 sec, I noticed it for 0.5 seconds then it had like 15% hp... I was unable to call mf culler and leechers, and instead of getting my divine explosion i go 2 chaos and 2 alchemy...

PoE LITERALLY PUNISHES U FOR PLAYING RIGHT NOW. IT FEELS S**T.

Here, take your jackpot. You failed to react after 8 hours of grind? Just grind 8 more for another attempt!

I really cant comprehend the need to change the dificulty in the game, im sure there are a lot of people like me in the game that just wanna run maps/league mechanics without struggling that hard, let people have fun, all these changes pushes the game into a state that almost nobody asked for, is the game made for the devs that probably not even play the game or for the player the consumer of your product? you really should not only listen streamers that play 15+ hours a day because most people dont have that time, poeple want to log in and have a few hours of pure fun, that what path of exile was all this time wasnt it? if you want a hard game create hardmode and not just mess with the whole game, nobody asked for this.

but i trust in ggg that they will end up doing the right decision, everyone has his ups and downs lets not forget this, and hating on ggg wont help anyone, its just a game at the end of the day not a life or death situation

Hello,

I have played this game since 2013, December 2013. I have seen the rise, and fall of everything in the history of this game. Double/triple dipping DOT damage, Snap Shot minions. I've been playing when there were 2 league mechanics (one softcore, one Hardcore). I have been playing a VERY long time. The way these drop rates are, reminds me of back then, 2013-2014, tough grinds for gear/currency, and that was ok, because back then, there were no maps. When maps were introduced, you had to use them in the solaris temple, right hand side. Where the lady that calls you a "cockroach" is in ACT3. That is what this feels like, where a 300PHYS DPS bow was god tier item.

Now, i have responsibilities, wife, kids, 60 hr work weeks, house, typical adult BS, in a league, on average i get to play MAYBE 30-40 hours. It takes me 14-18 hours to get to level 90, and i'm fine with that, i enjoy this game. by the time i hit 90 on my first character, i have all the currency i could ever need to make myself something that i want to play. with all this being said, the question i have is..


What do i do? I'm not getting the small currency i need to make this enjoyable, and i don't have the time to play like i used too to grind it out i would like CONCRETE answers. What do people do that have real time constraints.

Do i have to make a MF character like you used to back in the day?

There are a lot of "i's" in this response/question, but i play this game alone, so all i have is what i am seeing and feeling.

If this is something that the company is doubling down on, i don't think i have the time available for this to be enjoyable for me.